Great product!</br></br>Product Description</br></br>The establishment of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission was a pioneering international event. Never had any country sought to move forward from despotism to democracy both by exposing the atrocities committed in the past and achieving reconciliation with its former oppressors. At the center of this unprecedented attempt at healing a nation has been Archbishop Desmond Tutu?? whom President Nelson Mandela named as Chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. With the final report of the Commission just published?? Archbishop Tutu offers his reflections on the profound wisdom he has gained by helping usher South Africa through this painful experience.<br><br>In <b>No Future Without Forgiveness</b>?? Tutu argues that true reconciliation cannot be achieved by denying the past.??But nor is it easy to reconcile when a nation "ks the beast in the eye." Rather than repeat platitudes about forgiveness?? he presents a bold spirituality that recognizes the horrors people can inflict upon one another?? and yet retains a sense of idealism about reconciliation. With a clarity of pitch born out of decades of experience?? Tutu shows readers how to move forward with honesty "compassion to build a newer and more humane world.</br></br>Amazon.com Review</br></br>Archbishop Desmond Tutu stands alongside Nelson Mandela as one of the most iconic figures of the struggle to end apartheid in South Africa. As archbishop of Cape Town throughout the 1980s?? Tutu came to symbolize dignified?? rational opposition to the iniquities of the apartheid regime?? a faithful irreverence for unjust authority that led to his being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984. In 1995 he took up his greatest challenge?? as chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission?? the remarkable yet harrowing attempt by South Africans to come to terms with the gross violations of human rights committed throughout the apartheid era by offering amnesty and forgiveness rather than punishment and dismissal. <p>  <I>No Future Without Forgiveness</I> is Tutu's remarkable personal memoir of his time as chair of the commission. It records his insistence of the need to discover a " way" in the healing of the national psyche and his powerful belief that "we can indeed transcend the conflicts of the past?? we can hold hands as we realize our common humanity."Tutu's characteristic humor?? resilience?? and compassion are evoked in a way tha